How Your Contribution Saves Lives

With the support of donated dollars from the community, Lifebanc has been able to:

• Create and launch the Gift of Life Donor Memorial Program
  The Gift of Life Donor Memorial Program honors organ and tissue donors throughout Northeast Ohio and provides memorial materials and resources to the donor family. Since implementing the program in May of 2009, more than 200 kits have been distributed to families. The program helps to celebrate the heroic gift that the donor family and their loved one has given. It is a bereavement resource, keepsake and promotes the positive celebration of the gift of life. The kit includes: a memory box, donor medal, donor proclamation, an infant handprint and/or lock of hair, Donate Life bracelets, Donate Life lapel pins, Ohio Donor Registry brochures, contribution envelopes, bereavement resource brochure, and bookmarks. Additional materials are provided as requested by the family. Cost: $37.16 per kit

• Educate 20,207 people in 30 days
  In the month of April alone, 180 educational programs were presented in schools, colleges, businesses, faith communities and throughout the community. January through September a total of 959 programs have been presented and 54,930 individuals have been directly reached with the facts about organ and tissue donation and provided a call to action. Cost: $37 per middle school and high school program, $34 per adult program, $110 per multicultural program.

• Publish and distribute a book of gratitude and inspiration
  Ohio's Legacy: 88 Stories of Compassion, Caring and Courage is a gratitude book containing a compilation of stories of lives healed and saved from the 88 counties of Ohio. The book was distributed to the Bureau of Motor Vehicle offices and workplace partners throughout our service area as a form of appreciation and inspiration for those champions that have asked the question, "Do you want to be an Organ and Tissue Donor?" Cost: $14 per book

• Engage libraries throughout northeast Ohio
  The book The Gift that Heals: Stories of hope, renewal and transformation through organ and tissue donation by author Reg Green has been provided to 100 libraries throughout northeast Ohio for circulation and educational programming. This initiative was launched with the collaborative support of the Cleveland Eye Bank. Cost: $7.80 per book

• Continue to increase Registered Donor rates in northeast Ohio
  70,811 individuals have designated their wishes to be an organ and tissue donor for the first time (January - August 2009) a 4% increase over 2008. Cost: Priceless